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package org.apache.shindig.common.util;

import org.apache.commons.lang.ArrayUtils;

import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.nio.charset.Charset;

/**
 * Utilities for dealing with character set encoding.
 */
public class CharsetUtil {

  /**
   * UTF-8 Charset.
   */
  public static final Charset UTF8 = Charset.forName("UTF-8");

  /**
   * @return UTF-8 byte array for the input string.
   */
  public static byte[] getUtf8Bytes(String s) {
    if (s == null) {
      return ArrayUtils.EMPTY_BYTE_ARRAY;
    }
    ByteBuffer bb = UTF8.encode(s);
    return ArrayUtils.subarray(bb.array(), 0, bb.limit());
    
  }
}
